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Cleopatra may be the most written-about woman in history, and is certainly the most famous female ruler of any kingdom, ancient or modern. Yet, despite the mythology that attaches to the Queen of the Nile, she was by no means unique, no trailblazer – or such, in short, is the thesis of Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones’s entertaining new book, The Cleopatras.
Her parents, Antony and Cleopatra’s deaths and the capture of Egypt by Rome did not prevent Cleopatra Selene from eventually wearing a crown as an African
The Ptolemaic Dynasty in Egypt, with its capital of Alexandria lasted from 334 to 14 BC, weathering storms and battles, but eventually lost by Queen Cleopatra to the Romans.
Shakespeare’s Globe is to include a trigger warning for discrimination against black women in its new Antony and Cleopatra production after casting a non-white actress to the lead role.
“I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it,” Shug tells Celie in Alice Walker’s “The Color Purple.”